The Black box : writing the race

The Black box : writing the race /

"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry...

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Main Author: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2024.
Subjects:
African Americans > Race identity > History.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Race identity.
Race relations.
African Americans.
Biography.
United States > Race relations > History.
United States.
Informational works.
History.
Biographies.
Documents d'information.
Table of Contents:
  • The Black box
  • Race, reason, and writing
  • Who's your daddy? : Fredrick Douglass and the politics of self-representation
  • Who's your mama? : The politics of disrespectability
  • The "true art of a race's past" : Art propaganda, and the new negro
  • Modernism and its discontents : Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright play the dozens
  • Sellouts vs. race men : On the concept of passing
  • Conclusion : Policing the color line.

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